Mask Shapes…

[Todd Gillespie]

Hold shift when you drag.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Darby Edelen]

[Dave LaRonde] “and if you have any thought of animating the rotation of these perfect shapes in AE, work in a square-pixel comp, rather than a non-square-pixel comp. The pixel aspect ratio in this situation needs to be 1.”

I don’t think this is true, unless you’re proposing rotating something I’m not aware of. Just to make sure I did a test in an AE7 0.9 Comp and rotated the mask and the layer, in both cases it maintains it’s perfect circle ratio.

[Mike Clasby]

Methinks it only wobbles if you rotate a square pixel circle (like from PS or a square pixel comp) in a .9 comp, or visy-versy.

I was lucky enough to be at the AE NYC user group meeting and Shape Layers are going to be revolutionary for After Effects, very cool, like they imported much of Illustrator into AE.

[Darby Edelen]

[yikesmikes] “Methinks it only wobbles if you rotate a square pixel circle (like from PS or a square pixel comp) in a .9 comp, or visy-versy.”

Yeah, that was kind of what I was thinking he might be referring to. But it doesn’t apply when you’re working with in AE or PS as long as you stick with the aspect ratio that you’ll be outputting to throughout the project. Everything should turn out gravy.